B. B. King Quotes

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

B. B. King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015

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I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

Jim Backus

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Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

Robert Green Ingersoll

SoulWorldBookFreeCannotDogma

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.

Michael Hintze

DoneGrandmotherOthersAlwaysOur

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

Amish Tripathi

SchoolMeBelieveStoryShortKnow

My confession: I listen to great music very badly.

Rosecrans Baldwin

MusicGreatListenConfessionVery

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

Louis Susman

GoodDayQueenFeel GoodFeelWant

Government must continue to live within its means.

Doug Ducey

LiveGovernmentWithinMustMeans

Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Anthony Noto

TodayRisksManagementDriveThink

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I AmWarTiredSickHellGlory

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

William Gibson

ScienceInfluenceCareerWantMy Own

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Pierre Bayle

HistoryNothingRaceHumanSpeaking

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine

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